Great ideas to investigate, guys. I'll have to look into it over the next week. The problem never occurs with paddles unplugged, and I haven't seen it happen when plugged directly into the key jack on the radio.
I'll report back when I figure it out, or if I don't! 73 Chip AE5KA On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Mike Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chip, > > Not saying this is your problem but my Bencher twin paddles started going > random nuts. The contact gap is small, less than the thickness of a sheet > of 70gm paper. During keying it would stick one side or the other. It > turned out to be the screws fastening the contact pillars not being tight. > I guess over the years the plastic insulating washers must have compressed > allowing the pillars to imperceptibly move. > > Since tightening them, the only problem with the paddles is me. > > Regards, > > Mike VP8NO > > On 27/03/2018 15:36, Chip Stratton wrote: > >> I have the external circuit using two diodes to allow the K2 to detect >> when >> a straight key is used instead of the paddles. Occasionally with the >> paddle >> plugged in but not keyed, the K2 will spontaneously start sending a >> string >> of dashes. This will terminate, sometimes only briefly, when I do key the >> paddle. It happens even when K2 transmit power is turned all the way down, >> and I've never had trouble with RF in the shack. >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
